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Frances Ashcroft

Dame Frances Ashcroft
Born
Frances Mary Ashcroft

(1952-02-15) 15 February 1952 (age 72)[2]
NationalityBritish
EducationTalbot Heath School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
AwardsUNESCO award (2012)
Croonian Lecture (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology[1]
Institutions
ThesisCalcium electrogenesis in insect muscle (1978)
Websitewww.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/group-leaders/frances-ashcroft

Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist.[4][1][5] She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on insulin secretion, type II diabetes and neonatal diabetes.[6][7] Her work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy.[8][9][4][10]

  1. ^ a b "Women in Physiology" (PDF). Static.physoc.org. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Ashcroft, Prof. Frances Mary". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. 2014. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U5819. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Frances Ashcroft". The Life Scientific. 15 May 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. ^ a b Wray, Susan; Tansey, Elizabeth, eds. (2015). Women physiologists : centenary celebrations and beyond (PDF). London: The Physiological Society. ISBN 9780993341007. OCLC 922032986.
  5. ^ Frances Ashcroft publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Ashcroft, F. M.; Harrison, D. E.; Ashcroft, S. J. H. (1984). "Glucose induces closure of single potassium channels in isolated rat pancreatic β-cells". Nature. 312 (5993): 446–448. Bibcode:1984Natur.312..446A. doi:10.1038/312446a0. PMID 6095103. S2CID 4340710.
  7. ^ Ashcroft, F. M.; Rorsman, P. (1989). "Electrophysiology of the pancreatic β-cell". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 54 (2): 87–143. doi:10.1016/0079-6107(89)90013-8. PMID 2484976.
  8. ^ Ashcroft, F. M. (1988). "Adenosine 5'-Triphosphate-Sensitive Potassium Channels". Annual Review of Neuroscience. 11: 97–118. doi:10.1146/annurev.ne.11.030188.000525. PMID 2452599.
  9. ^ "Frances Ashcroft talks to ReAgent about career advice for scientists". reagent.co.uk. 11 June 2014.
  10. ^ Ashcroft, Frances M.; Harrison, Donna E.; Ashcroft, Stephen J. H. (1984). "Glucose induces closure of single potassium channels in isolated rat pancreatic β-cells". Nature. 312 (5993): 446–448. Bibcode:1984Natur.312..446A. doi:10.1038/312446a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 6095103. S2CID 4340710. Closed access icon

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